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It is estimated that for every 1000 three-year-old children, 31 will have some form of language disorder. Of these, 23 are severely impaired, that is, their language age is less than two-thirds their chronological age.
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Tallal, P. (1989). Dysphasia, Developmental. In: Speech and Language. Readings from the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience . Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6774-9_20
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